It's goodbye Gladstone as the wind offers us a break and we get in some fast sailing to Pancake Creek. Troy discusses the effectiveness of our traditional spear to hunt and Pascale goes gathering yabbies in the sand with a yabbie pump. We take a more in de...
We walk up from our anchorage at Pancake Creek to visit the Bustard Head Light Station. Pascale shows you how to make delicious healthy pancakes with only 3 ingredients and we hunt and taste some more of the local seafood on offer.
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After months of sitting out storms and strong winds, we get a favorable weather report to head out to the Great Barrier Reef. Our first stop is Fitzroy Reef in the Capricorn Bunker group, a reef lagoon anchorage offering world class diving and fishing.
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We use the north westerly winds to continue our journey south down through the Capricorn Bunker Group in the southernmost part of the Great Barrier Reef. We land our biggest Queensland Spanish Mackerel yet under spinnaker. On arrival at Lady Musgrave lagoo...
We sail south with a favourable wind and find ourselves caught up in Summer thunderstorms. With lightning blasting the sky we take measures to protect our electrical circuits. Winds swirl and cause us to be on a lee shore, we show our rain collection metho...
Join us this week as we do lots of sailing (with some through wild weather) in southern Queensland waters. We forage for edible greens, visit the extraordinary Tangalooma Wrecks and face challenging conditions exiting Mooloolaba.
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This week we say goodbye to Brisbane and sail north past Fraser Island to the Capricorn Bunker group. Along the way we recap on our time in Brisbane including giving you a run down on ou...
We sit in the saloon of Mirrool and answer your questions! Including:
00:50 What are those scarf things you use to cover your faces?
02:30 Coral Bleaching - is the reef dead?
06:20 Sharks! When to get out of the water? When are they a big deal?
11:44 Are w...
Our return to Pancake Creek is met with a multitude of culinary delights including our own wild harvest of prawns! When the weather finally eases we sail out to the reef where we have to out maneuver a cheeky grey reef shark for our dinner.
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This week we are based at Fitzroy Reef where strong winds have us sea trialing our new Mantus Marine storm anchor. We dive a very fishy coral garden reef gutter, go for a fast pace drift dive along the reef entrance and hang out in the deep blue listening ...
We answer loads of questions in this Birthday Live Chat Special celebrating our boat's 50th birthday, 2 years of Free Range Sailing and 100 episodes!
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We have a brief stop over at the stunning Wistari Reef where we drift dive a fish infested coral reef pass. The Captain cooks up an amazing meal before we have a cracking night sail to Yeppoon where we get a heap of boat chores done at the Keppel Bay Marin...
This week we sail 120 nautical miles out to the Swain Reefs in the Southern Great Barrier Reef. On the way catching a tuna that Pascale prepares for a delicious brunch. Jumping in at both Sanctuary and Sweet Lip reefs we discover that a lot of the coral re...
What has fishing, whales, strong winds, giggles and plenty of sailing action?
This week's episode of Free Range Sailing of course!
Get a crew's eye view of some Beaufort Force 6 offshore sailing as we push our little yacht at top speed from the Swain R...
Join us as we answer your frequently asked questions while sailing our yacht at no less than 6.5 knots (which is pretty fast for us!).
Topics covered:
00:37 Why we chose a Holding Tank over a Composting Toilet
02:14 Could the Toilet Pump be Used as a Bil...
This week we explore the splendid Great Keppel Island and get up close and personal with one of the resident monotremes! We cross a stretch of water that is a four wheel drive track and cattle crossing at low tide, as well as, sailing back out to Lady Mus...
Join us for the highlights of our final incredible week at Lady Musgrave Island in the Capricorn Bunker Group. Among other things we troll for Spanish Mackerel, jig for squid, have an incredible encounter with some humpback whales and dolphins and sail to ...
It's time to say goodbye to the Great Barrier Reef and continue our journey south to Hervey Bay behind Fraser Island. We wanted to join in the annual whale migration and we got even more than we bargained for! As well as whale encounters, you can sail with...
This week Pascale takes the helm to sail us into the township of Urangan in Hervey Bay where our patron, Stephen, invites us to go on a flight with him on his Cessna 177 Cardinal. What an incredible experience see the spectacular Fraser Island from the air...
This week we thought we'd share with you a day in our lives to give you an idea of what it is like to be a live aboard cruiser and travel blogger. This video was filmed at Fraser Island in September 2019.
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This week we get some cranking speeds in light winds behind Fraser Island while discussing something we'd overlooked over the last couple of months flying our cruising spinnaker! Had you picked up on it?
Once at Kingfisher Bay, we go on a whale watching t...
This week we find ourselves sailing on anchor, visiting the endangered humpback dolphins in Tin Can Bay and sailing to Pelican Bay ready to cross the Wide Bay Bar the following morning. Sloppy seas made for a wet bar crossing but we made it unscathed only ...
This week we depart the Gold Coast Seaway ready to ride the northerly winds 100 nautical miles to the mouth of the Clarence River in New South Wales coastline. Once the wind picks up in the afternoon, we go the fastest we've ever been on Mirrool surfing do...
Come along with us as we explore the Clarence river in Northern New South Wales.
This was the most fun we've had making an episode in a long time and we are sure you are going to love it! We don't really know how to describe it but we can tell you that w...
This week we hoist the sails and continue our journey southwards 128 nautical miles to Port Macquarie where we meet some of the friendly local critters!
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year!
Pascale & Troy
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On a fast downwind sail from Port Macquarie to Port Stephens we make a big mistake.... Join us this week as we troubleshoot the breakage and make a temporary repair so we can get back out sailing again.
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What happened this week? There was a boom testin', oyster gatherin', fish spearin', soup makin', whale watchin', night sailin' and fridge lid installin'! There's also the usual banter but you're going to have to come along for the ride to hear it.
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The weather man lied to us again! With forecast 15 to 20 knot offshore winds predicted to give us a beam reach down the coast we expected our trip from Newcastle to Pittwater to be a bit of a non-event. What we got instead was something completely differen...
After a well earned rest we explore the surrounds of Pittwater before sailing to Gosford to re-provision Mirrool.
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Join us this week as we take a tour of 5 very different wooden boats at the Pittwater Wooden Boat Festival.
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We sail through Sydney Heads to explore the shoreline of Australia's largest capital city. With a live TV appearance and some boat work planned, we sail Mirrool under the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge to stay at @MultihullCentral1 where we participate in a ...
Today we move all of our reefing lines out of the cockpit to the base of the mast and discuss our reasons for doing so. Moving fittings means we have to re-bed them in a way that is leak proof. Our favourite bedding compound is Butyl rubber tape and we exp...
Join us for our last week in Sydney before we say goodbye and sail to the stunning Jervis Bay. We also have to navigate the harbour in thick smoke due to the bushfires burning north of Sydney. This video was filmed in December 2019.
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This video depicts our week in Jervis Bay dodging rapidly changing winds and smokey skies aboard our tiny sailboat during some of the worst of the New South Wales fires in December last year.
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In our final episode on the Australian mainland, we sail away from the worst of the bush fires headed for Tasmania. Rapidly changing weather conditions convince us to pull into the port of Eden where we find a few surprises!
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A quick update on our whereabouts and we explain why Free Range Sailing is taking a break from uploading videos for a little while.
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